Web Development Manager

Location : Toronto / Remote

Duration : C-H. (Conversion in 3 to 6 Months)

Title : Web Development Manager.

Work Authorization – Candidates with unrestricted work authorization in Canada.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Manage and lead a team of 5 to 7 Software Engineers to deliver web experiences with best in class production values that will be enjoyed by millions of users.

· Work directly with digital producers and platform teams to provide business solutions from inception to operation.

· Manage vendor relationships

· Resource planning and financial accountability

· Ensure that the whole team owns the quality of the products we produce and maintain a balanced mindset across the engineering disciplines involved in delivering those products according to the ‘definition of done’.

· Be a guardian of world-class customer experience.

· Stay abreast of industry/technology trends relevant to the Software Engineering discipline.

· Regularly review team performance, collaborate with them on improvement initiatives/experiments

· Attract, recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent.

· Review the performance of the team and individual team members and provide effective coaching for improvement.

· Cultivate and groom leaders.

· Act as a servant leader to a team or a team of teams so that they are enabled to maximize the value they can deliver to the business.

· Foster a growth mind-set in all employees.

· Foster and enable software craftsmanship and innovation.

· Advocate for the team and promote their successes, celebrate their failures, and share key learnings throughout the organization.

· Lead accountability, autonomy, and empowerment within your teams and manage the appropriate boundaries to achieve the result of having self-directed work teams.

· Live the principles behind the Agile Manifesto and SAFe framework in all interactions and equip the team to do the same.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE

· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related engineering degree or equivalent work experience.

· 8+ years’ experience in software development.

· 5+ years building user interfaces, web applications and services on a public cloud infrastructure,

· 3+ years of software development management experience.

· 1+ years leading teams using Agile, Scrum, XP, or Kanban

Qualifications

· Experience with Web UI development and JavaScript libraries (React.js, Vue.js.).

· Experience in API service oriented architectures

· Experience with Cookie consent and web analytics

· Experience with Mobile Application development

· Experience with Agency or Marketing industry,

· Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery

· Experience with leveraging public cloud infrastructure (specifically AWS/EC2 and serverless)

· Familiarity with Lottie / Bodymovin animations

· Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch and/or Figma

· Strong communication skills

· Track record of successful project delivery.

· Capable of contributing technically when necessary

· Demonstrable knowledge of software design patterns, algorithms, data structures and modern programming techniques

· Knowledge of common web development patterns

Anam Chaudhry

achaudhry@pksi.com / 847-201-6116